Enron’s No. 3 exec pleads guilty
Andrew Fastow, the financial wizard whose manipulations were crucial in perpetrating one of the largest corporate frauds in history, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Wednesday and agreed to tell...
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Fitzgerald praised for `integrity’
Two weeks ago, U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictment of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan. Two years ago, he won convictions of people tied to Al Qaeda for their...
Air France grounds L.A. jets
Acting on specific intelligence, the French prime minister asked Air France on Wednesday to cancel six flights between Paris and Los Angeles on Christmas Eve and Christmas for fear of...
U.S. ends Muslim registry
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it is largely scrapping a controversial Justice Department-initiated program requiring men from predominantly Muslim nations to come in for questioning, fingerprinting and...
Torn from families and jobs, deportees face bleak future
Suleman Faqih was jolted awake just before dawn last January, when federal agents entered his bedroom and stuck a flashlight in his face. "Get up!" they told him as he...
Immigration crackdown shatters Muslims’ lives
The 75 passengers on the Icelandair jet sat strapped to their seats, cloth bands cinching their arms to their waists for all but the final descent of the three-leg, 20-hour...
Aspiring politician at center of policy
In less than a year, Kris Kobach went from serving on a city council in Kansas and teaching law to the inner circle of policymaking at the Justice Department, where...
A capital idea–storm empties U.S. offices
Hurricane Isabel accomplished Thursday what previously only the British Army had achieved in its 1814 conquest of the capital, shutting down the federal government in the Washington area and driving...
Ex-FBI agent arrested in spying case
A retired FBI agent was charged with gross negligence Wednesday for allegedly allowing a woman access to classified information that authorities say she later passed on to intelligence operatives of...
U.S. on alert for ‘lone wolf’ attacks
The nation's terror-alert status Monday was officially raised to "orange," meaning a high risk of attack, as Homeland Security and FBI officials geared up for efforts to disrupt extremists who...